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• catalog abstract "Pornography produces a mixture of gut reactions in most people: fascination, guilt, disgust, rage. What it doesn't often stimulate is an open mind and reasoned discussion. Women, who are the subject of much pornographic material, have much at stake in the issue. So it is not surprising that campaigns in favour of increased censorship should have recruited women to their ranks. But there are good reasons for women to resist the rush towards moral outrage. This collection. Of essays, all by women, shows that the issues are both more complex and more interesting than the censorship lobby allows. Lynne Segal directly challenges the easy assumption that pornography causes violence towards women. Linda Williams argues that to repress the pornographic depiction of 'deviant' activity runs dangerously close to the outlawing of deviance itself. One major argument against pornography is that it always involves the domination and degradation of. Women. As several of these essays show, this claim simply does not survive serious investigation; male desires for submission are a mainstay of visual and written pornography. This book deals not only with theory but also with practice, examining the shifting boundaries between art and pornography. Two essays on the female porn-performer Annie Sprinkle demonstrate that wit, intelligence and feminist awareness are not incompatible with a pornographic imagination. And. Photographer Grace Lau disarmingly explains the fun she gets from photographing the sexually unconventional.".
• catalog contributor b4670390.
• catalog contributor b4670391.
• catalog created "1993.".
• catalog date "1993".
• catalog date "1993.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1993.".
• catalog description "Does pornography cause violence? : the search for evidence / Lynne Segal -- The body's shadow realm / Gertrud Koch -- Second thoughts on hard core : American obscenity law and the scapegoating of deviance / Linda Williams -- Throgh a gaze darkly : pornography's academic market / Jennifer Wicke -- The erotic in Asian cinema / Maureen Turim -- Look back/talk back / Bette Gordon and Karyn Kay -- Complicity : women artists investigating masculinity / Liz Kotz -- She-male fantasies and the aesthetics of pornography / Laura Kipnis -- Above the pulp-line : the cultural significance of erotic art / Lynda Nead -- The seduction of boundaries : feminist fluidity in Annie Sprinkle's art/education/sex / Chris Straayer -- A provoking agent : the pornography and performance art of Annie Sprinkle / Linda Williams -- Confessions of a complete scopophiliac / Grace Lau -- Maid to order : commercial s/m and gender power / Anne McClintock.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• catalog description "Of essays, all by women, shows that the issues are both more complex and more interesting than the censorship lobby allows. Lynne Segal directly challenges the easy assumption that pornography causes violence towards women. Linda Williams argues that to repress the pornographic depiction of 'deviant' activity runs dangerously close to the outlawing of deviance itself. One major argument against pornography is that it always involves the domination and degradation of.".
• catalog description "Photographer Grace Lau disarmingly explains the fun she gets from photographing the sexually unconventional.".
• catalog description "Pornography produces a mixture of gut reactions in most people: fascination, guilt, disgust, rage. What it doesn't often stimulate is an open mind and reasoned discussion. Women, who are the subject of much pornographic material, have much at stake in the issue. So it is not surprising that campaigns in favour of increased censorship should have recruited women to their ranks. But there are good reasons for women to resist the rush towards moral outrage. This collection.".
• catalog description "Women. As several of these essays show, this claim simply does not survive serious investigation; male desires for submission are a mainstay of visual and written pornography. This book deals not only with theory but also with practice, examining the shifting boundaries between art and pornography. Two essays on the female porn-performer Annie Sprinkle demonstrate that wit, intelligence and feminist awareness are not incompatible with a pornographic imagination. And.".
• catalog extent "x, 238 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Dirty looks.".
• catalog identifier "0851704034".
• catalog identifier "0851704042 (pbk.)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Dirty looks.".
• catalog issued "1993".
• catalog issued "1993.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "London : BFI Publishing,".
• catalog relation "Dirty looks.".
• catalog subject "363.47 20".
• catalog subject "Feminism.".
• catalog subject "HQ471 .D57 1993".
• catalog subject "Obscenity (Law)".
• catalog subject "Pornography Social aspects.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Does pornography cause violence? : the search for evidence / Lynne Segal -- The body's shadow realm / Gertrud Koch -- Second thoughts on hard core : American obscenity law and the scapegoating of deviance / Linda Williams -- Throgh a gaze darkly : pornography's academic market / Jennifer Wicke -- The erotic in Asian cinema / Maureen Turim -- Look back/talk back / Bette Gordon and Karyn Kay -- Complicity : women artists investigating masculinity / Liz Kotz -- She-male fantasies and the aesthetics of pornography / Laura Kipnis -- Above the pulp-line : the cultural significance of erotic art / Lynda Nead -- The seduction of boundaries : feminist fluidity in Annie Sprinkle's art/education/sex / Chris Straayer -- A provoking agent : the pornography and performance art of Annie Sprinkle / Linda Williams -- Confessions of a complete scopophiliac / Grace Lau -- Maid to order : commercial s/m and gender power / Anne McClintock.".
• catalog title "Dirty looks : women, pornography, power / edited by Pamela Church Gibson and Roma Gibson.".
• catalog type "text".